Talk from ExactTarget Connections 2014

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How Node.js Will Change Your Team
Jeff Dickey, CLI Developer at Heroku,
@dickeyxxx

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Heroku
• Host apps without servers
• Works great with Node apps
• No vendor lock-in

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My Book!
• Write Modern Apps with the MEAN Stack
• MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and Node.js
• Project-based

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Agenda
• What Node is
• What makes Node different
• How Node changes engineering teams

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Node is a tool to run JavaScript
code from a command line or
server.

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What can Node be used for?
• Web applications
• Mobile backends
• Command-line applications

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What makes Node better?

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Node has reinvented the way
we create websites.
Developers build critical
functionality in days, not
weeks.
– Michael Yormark, WSJD

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Share code between the client
and server!

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Share code between the client
and server!
…not really

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Node is UNIX
• Lightweight applications/services that work together
• Text streams over complex data formats

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Node is UNIX
• Lightweight applications/services that work together
• Text streams over complex data formats
• Works on Windows thanks to v8 and Microsoft’s money

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Node is fast – but that doesn’t
really matter

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Typical Blocking Web Server

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Evented Node (async)

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Evented Node (async)

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Node has allowed us to build
a global, real-time logistics
system without having to
think twice about locking or
concurrency issues.
— Curtis Chambers, Uber

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Realtime is Simple

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Rich Hickey – Simple Made Easy

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Massive amount of free code

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Downsides of Node
• JavaScript isn’t everyone’s favorite language
• Continuation-passing style can be tricky to trace
• CPU intensive apps require forethought

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How does Node change teams?

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No More Big Rewrite!!
• In fact, constant discarding
• Short shelf life leads to experimentation not maintenance
• 10x developers are those writing new features

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Top Talent Loves Node.js
• Smart developers like to work on new platforms
• Great developers want to shape community, not just be a member
• Internal open source culture

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Why go to Facebook and do
PHP when you can go to
PayPal and do Node.js?
– Bill Scott, PayPal

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Learn more
• Bill Scott of PayPal — product
• Eran Hammer of Walmart — technical
• nodeschool.io

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How Node.js Will Change Your Team
Jeff Dickey, CLI Developer at Heroku,
@dickeyxxx